In this example, I will be using an “Announcements List,” with the default fields, and using and Windows Form App, I will load data from this list into a DataGridView. You will need to download and install the SharePoint Server 2013 Client Components SDK from Microsoft.

After you have installed the SDK, You will need to add the following two references to your project: Continue Reading

I haven’t posted in a while, but behind the scenes I have been working with SharePoint 2013 Client Object Model. The SharePoint 2013 Client Obect Model is a set of libraries and classes with which you can consume SharePoint data through a specific object model that is a subset of the SharePoint Server Object Model.

I’ve ran into a few issue trying to use the sp.js file on custom aspx pages within SharePoint Designer. After creating a new aspx file add the following lines between the <head></head> tags.

[script type=”text/javascript”]
$( document ).ready(function() {
/* I have three “Choice fields” on my form that should be clear of any values before the use begins to work on the form.*/
$(” #ctl00_ctl37_g_2b0481ff_2742_407e_8a04_ba29ca966562_ff21_ctl00_DropDownChoice ” ).val(“”).change();
$(” #ctl00_ctl37_g_2b0481ff_2742_407e_8a04_ba29ca966562_ff31_ctl00_DropDownChoice ” ).val(“”).change();
$(” #ctl00_ctl37_g_2b0481ff_2742_407e_8a04_ba29ca966562_ff51_ctl00_DropDownChoice ” ).val(“”).change();
});

A few months ago, I posted a quickly written blog entry titled, “ColdFusion 2016’s cfSharePoint tag.” I really like the idea of getting data out of SharePoint for use in other Web Applications, Mobile Development, Use on Web pages, etc. In the example below, I wrote a ColdFusion Web Service around the Out of the box Task Lists. My web service returns the title, description, start date, end date, percentage complete, assigned, and status via the getStatusmethod. The getStatusmethod accepts one argument, “status,” and returns all records with the provided status in XML. Continue Reading

Many times over the past few years, I have developed forms, which requires the current user’s information, such as email address and display name, on the create a new item from. I thought I would share how to modify a custom form in a couple of easy steps:

First, you custom form needs to request the information from SharePoint. Add the parameter, UserID, to the form .

The cfsharepoint tag in ColdFusion 2016 now supports NTLM authentication, which is the default on most SharePoint server configurations. This is a much needed improvement on for this tag. Kudos out the team(s) at adobe who worked on this. Continue Reading

I was asked to add a scrolling news feed to my work’s main SharePoint site. I am not a fan of scrolling content because the movement is distracting if the page is left open on a second screen.

Use SharePoint Designer 2013, I created a new HTML page in the site pages and added the following code to the page.

I am using: jQuery 2.2.3, jQuery.rss, jQuery Moment, and jQuery.vticker to make this work. It’s important to allow jQuery.rss to get the feed before vTicker starts. I used jQuery.rss “success event” to have the script wait until all the feed is loaded into the “#rss-news” div.

I used a “Page Viewer” webpart to include the page into the desired page.